theodric

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601.
by theodric 3y ago
I managed maybe 45 minutes at a go before face sweat/itch, eye strain, muscle ache, and nausea set in. The novelty wore off rapidly, it sat around for a year, and I sold it off. I wanted to believe.
602.
by theodric 3y ago
Yeah I can't wait to spend €11000 so my family can strap a screen to each of our faces and watch movies like that rather than staring at a dumb old TV like some kinda poor people
603.
by theodric 3y ago
When I wrote to Planet complaining that my keys so frequently rotated in their sockets that they would often entirely fail to depress, their response was that I should wiggle them a bit. I'm glad you like yours. I don't. Disappoin
604.
by theodric 3y ago
And after all, whomst among us isn't really just three government AIs in a trenchcoat? I know I sure am.
605.
by theodric 3y ago
Irrelevant to topic and counter to guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
606.
by theodric 3y ago
I see the Astro Slide 5G is 'NEW - JUST LAUNCHED! PRE-ORDER NOW TO SECURE YOUR PLACE IN THE ORDER LIST!' '£982.80 inc VAT' 'STOCK EXP. JULY 2023' IANAL, but one might be interested in talking to the class of
607.
by theodric 3y ago
I have a Gemini. The keyboard - you know, the main selling point - as often as not just goes 'thud' when you try to press a key rather than depressing and registering. The software was abandoned in a half-assed state after one rev
608.
by theodric 3y ago
Beepberry https://beepberry.sqfmi.com/
609.
by theodric 3y ago
HN is a kind of small miracle in that it's the sort of place where I'm inclined to read the comments first , and seems to be populated with fairly clever people who contribute usefully but not also, at the same time, extreme bigo
610.
by theodric 3y ago
Authorities making recommendations about minutiae does not really dictate much of the way I live my life. If they want to make it a law, fine, I'll brush my teeth in between the cups of coffee I serially drink from the moment I rise un
611.
by theodric 3y ago
Good thing I left NL or I would have invalidated your statement! Actually, I don't know anyone who brushes twice daily.
612.
by theodric 3y ago
Arguably, that's more of an adult's game now, at least in the Slashdot comments section
613.
by theodric 3y ago
It's...a thing. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gaslight-gatekeep-girlboss
614.
by theodric 3y ago
The old buildings have the usual old building problems, including hearing when your upstairs neighbor has gas or is feeling amorous. The newer concrete ones are much better, but entirely devoid of character. If you have millions, you can bu
615.
by theodric 3y ago
Because you can't fucking afford it. Not everybody makes 7 figures.
616.
by theodric 3y ago
I moved to the Irish countryside for the quiet. On the other hand, I found my former situation with the Swiss regulations around noise, including mandated, legally-backed, police-enforced quiet from 12:00-13:00, 22:00-07:00 M-Sa and the ent
617.
by theodric 3y ago
I'd say that the cover is more-or-less mandatory for productivity because you lose dimmer colors to the background without it, even with the OLED brightness jacked up to max. Then again, they're doing obvious PWM to achieve the lo
618.
by theodric 3y ago
I've been doing this since December with a pair of Nreal Air glasses and alternately a MacBook and an SBC. It's okay-ish, but not great. Text rendering is sub-par requiring jacked-up font sizes, the viewport is fairly small, and i
619.
by theodric 3y ago
I'd be delighted if something like SerenityOS, or Haiku, or hell, even ReactOS could gain enough traction to develop into a viable desktop OS during my lifetime. But I'm too dumb to do it on my own, too burned-out to become less d
620.
by theodric 3y ago
Speaking as someone who has had two employment contracts in the Netherlands: what? Both of mine had 30-day probation, termination with immediate effect servable by either party, zero recourse. Is this something new since 2019?
621.
by theodric 3y ago
I have yet to find a game that makes use of the back buttons on the Steam Deck, so it wouldn't bother me. Windows would bother me plenty, tho :)
622.
by theodric 3y ago
Did you sign anything at joining which stated your role, salary, and/or office location?
623.
by theodric 3y ago
There's a lot of evidence of internalized capitalism on this site, but I'm happy to see a variety of opinions for and against remote coming out in the comments
624.
by theodric 3y ago
I've had four employment contracts in Europe (3x EU, 1x CH) and all included that clause
625.
by theodric 3y ago
That's abusive behavior
626.
by theodric 3y ago
They exist: a managing director and an executive director at my last place of employment used the words "water cooler" on all-hands meetings among their justifications for RTO. "Coffee machine" was another variation. Swi
627.
by theodric 3y ago
"Don't use ZFS. It's that simple. It was always more of a buzzword than anything else, I feel, and the licensing issues just make it a non-starter for me." -Linus Torvalds https://www.realworldtech.com/fo
628.
by theodric 3y ago
I'm too lazy to summarize this beyond saying both ext4 and XFS have their advantages and disadvantages, and both are still under active development. ZFS is a funny and problematic one that does lots of cool tricks but isn't proper
629.
by theodric 3y ago
This strikes me as a very bold claim to just uncritically accept, especially considering it's just Some Guy making it because it Feels Truthy. Any sources to support the assertion? Any evidence at all? Absent that, this is likely just
630.
by theodric 3y ago
Not nearly enough ads, spyware, or telemetry, plus the feature set remained stable for the entire time I was playing with it. Totally unrealistic.

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